On a chilly evening in March 1930, an intriguing challenge was set by Woolf Barnato, the charismatic chairman of Bentley ...

Chaos surrounded us. Informal porters rolling luggage carts zigzagged between cars. Commuters spilled from the bus terminal onto the sidewalk, where they sat on suitcases and duffel bags.

On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, ...